Shalmaneser I

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King Shalmaneser I, pouring out Dust of a Conquered City in front of an Assyrian Temple after returning victorious.

Shalmaneser I (Shulmanu-asharedu;^[1] 1274 BC – 1245 BC or 1265 BC – 1235 BC) was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365 - 1050 BC).

Son of Adad-nirari I, he succeeded his father as king in 1265 BC.

According to his annals, discovered at Assur, in his first year he conquered eight countries in the northwest and destroyed the fortress of Arinnu, the dust of which he brought to Assur. In his second year he defeated Shattuara, king of Hanilgalbat (Mitanni), and his Hittite and Ahlamu allies. He incorporated the remains of the Mittani kingdom as part of one of the Assyrian provinces. Shalmaneser I also claimed to have blinded 14,400 enemy prisoners in one eye. He was one of the first Assyrian kings who was known to deport his defeated enemies to various lands rather than simply slaughtering them all.

He conquered the whole country from Taidu to Irridu, from Mount Kashiar to Eluhat, and from the fortresses of Sudu and Harranu to Carchemish on the Euphrates. He built palaces at Assur and Nineveh, restored the "world-temple" at Assur, and founded the city of Kalhu (the biblical Calah/Nimrud. He was succeeded by his son Tukulti-Ninurta I.

Limmu officials by year

Annual limmu officials beginning with the year of accession of Šulmanu-ašared. The list is partly derived from Freydank^[2] and McIntyre.^[3] The exact order of the earliest limmus is conjectural but the ordering from Šerriya onwards is essentially fixed.

1265: Adad-šumu-lešir son of Sin-ašared
1264: Šulmanu-ašared (king)
1263: Mušabšiu-Šibitti
1262: Ber-šumu-iddina
1261: Abi-ili son Aššur-šumu-lešir
1260: Aššur-alik-pana
1259: Adad-Šamši son of Adad-šumu-lešir
1258: Kidin-Sin son Adad-teya
1257: Šerriya
1256: Aššur-kašid
1255: Aššur-mušabši son of Iddin-Mer
1254: Aššur-mušabši son of Anu-mušallim
1253: Qibi-Aššur son of Šamaš-aḫa-iddina
1252: Aššur-nadin-šume
1251: Mušallim-Aššur
1250: Qibi-Aššur son of Ṣilli-Marduk
1249: Ina-pi-Aššur-lišlim son of Bābu-aḫa-iddina
1248: Ber-šumu-lešir son of Ete-pi-Tašmete
1247: Aššur-dammiq son of Abi-ili
1246: Ber-bel-lite
1245: Ištar-eriš son of Šulmanu-qarrad
1244: Lullayu son of Adad-šumu-iddina
1243: Aššur-ketti-ide son of Abi-ili
1242: Ekaltayu
1241: Aššur-daʼissunu son of Ululayu
1240: Riš-Adad
1239: Nabu-bela-uṣur
1238: Usat-Marduk
1237: Ellil-ašared
1236: Ittabši-den-Aššur
1235: Ubru

Notes

↑ The names means: "[the god] Shulmanu is preeminent"; Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq (Penguin, 3rd ed., 1992), p. 295.
↑ Helmut Freydank, AoF 3 (2005), 45-56.
↑ Eponyms of Shalmaneser 1 - Summary

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

Preceded by Adad-nirari I	King of Assyria 1263 BC–1233 BC	Succeeded by Tukulti-Ninurta I

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